The US State Department on January 29th said special envoy for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Ambassador Joseph Y. Yun, will visit Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) from February 1st - 6th.

(CPV) - ADB President Takehiko Nakao met with France’s Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Economy and Finance, Delphine Geny-Stephann and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Financial Affairs and Development of the French Treasury Cyril Rousseau on January 29th 2018.

India and Cambodia signed four agreements on January 27th, including a USD36.9 million credit package for a water resource development project in Cambodia and an MoU on prevention of human trafficking during an official visit of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen to India.

(CPV) - Together with the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and representatives of development partners, ADB Vice-President Wencai Zhang attended the Bangladesh Development Forum (BDF) in Dhaka at the middle of January 2018. As a keynote speaker of the opening session, he reaffirmed ADB’s commitment to supporting Bangladesh in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and assisting the countr

(CPV) - Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth, according to a new Oxfam report released on January 22nd 2018.